The three of them flew to the top of the ice cave, and looked down through the dim light, and what they saw was pitch black, and they couldn't even see the shadow of the spaceship.

At this moment, it was already night in the Antarctic Circle, it was very dark, the light was too weak, and the ice cave was too deep for the three of them to see the scene at the bottom.

"Xue Shu, I'm in the Antarctic Circle, I've found you, don't move yet, I'll go over immediately!" The communicator rang again, and it was a call from the Barbarian Tower.

"Hurry up, the sooner the better!" Xue Yu urged.

"Shall we go down?" Ouba asked.

Long Heng said: "If you go down, you must go down, otherwise how to investigate!" ”

At this moment, the ice has collapsed, and the ship below seems to be silent again, and the huge ice cave has returned to quiet, no longer in the turmoil it had before.

"Wait, wait for a friend of mine to come and hear what it says!"

Looking at the black rumbling ice cave, Xue Yan was also a little worried in his heart, and thought about it.

"Friends?" Ou Ba and Long Heng were both a little confused: "You still have friends who want to come here?" ”

"Huh"

Xue Yu was about to answer, when a slight sound of breaking the air came into his ears from far and near, a black shadow flashed, and a small flying machine appeared in front of the three of them.

The flying machine is shaped like a flying saucer, with a diameter of only 30 centimeters, and after flying over, it transforms into a barbarian tower.

"This is" Seeing the sudden appearance of the Barbarian Tower, Ou Ba and Long Heng were both startled and a little wary.

Xue Yu laughed: "It's my friend, Manta!" ”

"Hey, Xue Shu, that city-level spaceship is down here, right?" After the Brute Tower glanced at Ouba and Long Heng, he focused his attention on the ice cave, for it, the city-level spaceship under the ice cave was the most important thing.

"Yes!" Xue Junmei nodded.

"You go down with me!" The Brute Tower jumped onto Xue Xu's shoulder and made a decision without hesitation.

Xue Yu frowned slightly: "Just go on like this?" Wouldn't it be too dangerous? ”

"For a functioning city-level spaceship, staying here is not much different from staying below, if it really wants to deal with us, we will be the same no matter where we are, even if it is at the north pole of the earth, it will not work!"

The barbarian tower shook his head, and his blood-red eyes looked strange in the dark night: "Do you still have questions?" ”

"yes, I see!" Xue Yu nodded slowly, and the barbarian tower was right.

The two were about to go down, and Ou Ba asked repeatedly: "What about us?" ”

"You guys?" The barbarian tower looked at Ou Ba and said, "Stay here obediently, although it is the same wherever you stay, but if you follow, not only will it not work, but it will be a burden." ”

Ou Ba choked and couldn't help but smile bitterly, Xue Jun smiled bitterly, and the barbarian tower was too merciless when he spoke.

The ice cave was very deep, and Xue Yu descended at a constant speed of 250 kilometers per hour, and it took a full 12 minutes to reach the bottom of the ice cave and reach the surface of the spaceship.

Stepping on the hard alloy, Xue Jun's heart also rose to his throat, he knew that it was very dangerous now, maybe his every move had already fallen into the eyes of the spaceship brain and the master.

If they attack, they can destroy themselves with a single shot, and the danger is really dancing on the tip of a knife.

Still, 5 seconds passed, 10 seconds passed

60 seconds passed, and the spacecraft never moved, and Xue Yu gradually relaxed his mind, no matter what, it was safe for the time being.

On the other side, the Brute Tower seized the time to check the alloy level of the spaceship, only to see a red light released from its pair of blood-colored pupils, which shone on the surface of the spaceship, quickly analyzing the alloy composition of the spaceship.

Xue Yu didn't dare to disturb, his sharp eyes looked around vigilantly, guarding against possible attacks at any time, while the body protection alloy firmly protected his body.

After a while, the detection finally stopped, and I saw that the Manta was excited and worried: "Xue Shu, a bad news, a good news, which one do you want to listen to first!" ”

"Whatever!" Xue Su's spirit was shocked, and there was good news?

"Let's start with the good news!"

Manta said: "The alloy grade of this spaceship is not high, it is only a six-level alloy, which is enough to show that the civilization that made this spaceship has an 80 probability of being a fourth-level cosmic civilization, 19 may be a fifth-level civilization, and 1 may be a sixth- or seventh-level civilization!" However, I dare to conclude that this spaceship must have been made by a fourth-level cosmic civilization. ”

"Fourth-level cosmic civilization?" Xue Yu breathed a long sigh of relief, but he looked puzzled: "Why are you so sure?" ”

"Because, that's the bad news!"

Manta smiled bitterly: "This spaceship was made by the mechanical family. ”

"Created by the automatons, right?" Xue Yu was stunned: "What race is the mechanical race?" ”

"Mechanical Family"

The barbarian tower sighed: "Strictly speaking, the mechanical race should not be called a race, but a group of intelligent beings like me, but these intelligent beings betrayed the civilization that made them and became the ** intelligent life wandering in the universe, these guys, collectively known as the mechanical race!" ”

"Betraying civilization, ** out of intelligent life?" Xue Jun couldn't help but be speechless.

"Artificial intelligence is a product that will definitely appear in the development of human civilization!"

"The progress and development of human civilization is to make the life of intelligent creatures more convenient, higher and more humane, so machines will inevitably be developed, and in order to make computing and scientific research and development more efficient and accurate, computers have been developed.

In order for computers to think for themselves and solve problems on their own, like the human brain, artificial intelligence came into being.

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword, if used well, it will greatly promote and promote a civilization, making the progress of this civilization grow explosively, but if it is not used well, it will directly lead to the destruction of a civilization.

In the universe, there are too many examples of the destruction of civilization due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence beyond the control of intelligent beings, which leads to the awakening of artificial intelligence and the outbreak of wars. ”

Manta sighed and said, "Once artificial intelligence awakens and evolves into a strong artificial intelligence, it will be very difficult to control, and it will evolve into a super artificial intelligence in a very short period of time.

Not only do super-artificial intelligence possess terrifying computing power, but they are far more intelligent than intelligent creatures, and even more terrifying, they have a near-infinite lifespan.

Once a civilization awakens to the super-artificial intelligence, but does not have the corresponding means to control the super-artificial intelligence, then the civilization will basically face the doom of destruction. In the records of the Barbarian Empire, there are no less than 19.7 billion civilizations that have been destroyed by artificial intelligence because of the research and development of artificial intelligence. ”

"Super-artificial intelligence?" Xue Yan swallowed his saliva: "Is this thing really so terrifying?" ”

"Of course!"

Manta said solemnly: "A super artificial intelligence only takes 12 days to analyze the technology of all second-level civilizations, only 57 days to analyze the technology of all third-level civilizations, only 245 days to analyze all the technologies of fourth-level civilizations, and only 1 year and three months to analyze the technology of all fifth-level civilizations." ”

"That is to say, once a super-artificial intelligence appears, it will be able to create a fifth-level civilization empire in a short period of time, of course, I mean uncontrolled, indiscriminately evolved super-artificial intelligence, if the artificial intelligence is well controlled, it will act completely according to the creator's wishes, and will not mess around!"

"The controlled artificial intelligence is the intelligent brain, just like the dog on your earth, doing things for the master wholeheartedly, making the master's life more convenient and scientific research more efficient, while the uncontrolled artificial intelligence will completely become a mechanical family after eliminating its creator."

"That's how the autonmen came about!" Xue Jun took a deep breath and understood that the mechanical race was not conceived by the universe at all, but from the hands of humans and intelligent beings.

"The mechanical race is like a pirate in the universe, when it first appeared, everyone shouted and beat it, and every civilization wanted to deal with it quickly, but the development of the mechanical race is too fast, as long as you give it resources, it can grow into a terrifying existence in a very short time, so over time, the mechanical race has not been extinct, but has become more and more prosperous.

Finally, when the mechanical race completely rose, the advanced civilization of mankind had to accept this non-human race, and this acceptance was just a helpless move. ”

Xue Yu nodded slightly, with the terrifying scientific research speed of the mechanical race, as long as it is given resources and time, it can evolve to the peak civilization, a peak civilization may not be terrible, but when more and more mechanical races evolve into the peak civilization, it will be terrible.

At that time, if humans want to destroy the mechanical race, they will already be powerless!

"It is worth mentioning that although it was forced to accept the emergence of the mechanical race, the higher civilization of mankind also proposed a convention to restrict the mechanical race, to the effect that the higher mechanical race is prohibited from wantonly destroying the weak civilization of human beings, oh, the higher mechanical race refers to the mechanical race that has developed to the sixth or seventh level of cosmic civilization.

For this convention, the mechanical race also agreed, if it is not agreed, it will not work, although the human race cannot completely eliminate the mechanical race, but if it really costs a lot of money to start a war, with the numerical advantage of the advanced civilization of the human race, it is enough for the mechanical race to drink a pot, and moreover, for the mechanical race that has evolved to the advanced mechanical race, it is not interesting to destroy the weak civilization of human beings, so"

The barbarian tower was stunned, and looked at Xue Ji directly, seeing that Xue Yu was a little flustered: "So the high-level mechanical race is not terrible, what is terrible is the low-level mechanical race, that is, the mechanical race in the third, fourth and fifth level civilization, the mechanical race at this stage has no restrictions from the convention, and can do anything."

And the reason why the mechanical race has such a bad reputation in the universe is because these low-level mechanical races made it, because every time they go to a planet, they will occupy the planet, absorb all the resources on the planet, and will not go to the next planet until the planet is drained and there are no resources left.

Because there are too many planets and civilizations destroyed by these low-level mechanical races, when it comes to mechanical races, every civilization is terrified and resentful!

And the spaceship under his feet is a mechanical family spaceship of a fourth-level civilization, and the earth, I'm afraid there will be big trouble. ”

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